Posted on 06/08/2011 8:07:50 AM PDT by Borges
I don’t know who I’m quoting, but I read last week (I think it was in the FR) that the population of our planet (6,000,000,000?) could live as comfortably in the state of Texas as New Yorkers do in New York City.
Plenty of food is easily producible with modern farming science.
What’s the problem, Liberals? You don’t like what God said to go out and multiply and “fill the whole the earth”? Too bad about you pagans.
Reading the Times is sometimes like listening to an oldies station. I remember reading this chestnut when I was in second grade and it was already old then.
Yeah, but I don't want none of that desert and swampland stuff. Give me the good stuff and with a mall and super market close by. And a good air-conditioned car to get there.
Every few months I run some variant of those statistics. Amuses me. Next one I’m looking for involves finding the output of high-efficiency farms vs. world food needs, to determine how little space is really needed for farming. (Some 15M sq km are now in use for farming, but most of that seems low-tech and relatively low-output.)
I agree that food production is a fascinating factor in these population discussions, and that very little actual (factual) data is ever used. I understand that Auburn University and Texas A&M have entire Ag departments and graduate programs that are concerned with this subject, but I haven’t investigated.
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